ICC Media Release Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara has been fined 15 per cent of his match fee for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct during the sixth One-Day International against England in Pallekele on Saturday. Sangakkara was found to have breached Article 2.1.3 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to “Showing dissent at an Umpire’s decision during an International Match.” The incident happened at the beginning of the 34th over in Sri Lanka’s innings when Sangakkara got involved in a prolonged discussion with on-field umpire Bruce Oxenford, disputing the umpire’s decision to not allow Sri Lanka to take the batting Powerplay at that time. Two balls later, following the dismissal of Tillakaratne… Read More →

Media Release Sri Lanka Cricket wishes to announce that England Cricket Board has confirmed England Lions ( England ‘A’) will tour Sri Lanka in the early part of 2014. Lions will be playing two 3 day matches and three 4 day matches between 27th January and 2nd March 2014 with the SL “A” Team and the schedule will be announced in due course.